Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Starting this summer, the granting agencies (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC) are asking all applicants for funding competitions (grants, scholarships, and fellowships) to self-identify with information on age, gender, Indigenous identity, and status as a member of a visible minority group or person with a disability. A harmonized self-identification data collection process allows the granting agencies to monitor the equity performance of its programs and design new measures that achieve greater equity, diversity and inclusion in the research enterprise. Completing the self-identification form will be mandatory, but for each category there is an option for “I prefer not to answer.”

Aid to Scholarly Journals: These grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by offering a contribution to enable journals to explore innovative activities and defray costs associated with publishing scholarly articles, digital publishing, and journal distribution on Canadian not-for-profit platforms. The application deadline is September 10, 2018 and the application form will be available mid-July. Applications must be submitted electronically by an eligible administering organization on behalf of the journal.

Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants: The new tri-agency Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants invites proposals from applicants affiliated with First Nations, Métis and Inuit not-for-profit organizations, as well as with other not-for-profit organizations or Canadian postsecondary institutions in any discipline. The initiative will support short-term targeted interdisciplinary events, outreach activities and position papers to help guide new ways of engaging in research by and with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. This will include holistic, interdisciplinary and distinctions-based approaches that are transformative and contribute to reconciliation. Grants are valued at up to $50,000 for six months, with the possibility of a six-month extension. The deadline for proposals is September 6, 2018.

Mitacs Accelerate: Applicants working with Canadian businesses and/or eligible not-for-profit organizations are invited to apply for internship co-funding through the Mitacs Accelerate internships program as a component of their project’s training of graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers. Grant holders in the following funding opportunities are automatically preapproved for Mitacs Accelerate internships: Insight Grants, Partnership Development Grants, Partnership Engage Grants, and Partnership Grants (Stage 2).

Coming Soon:

The descriptions and application material for the following funding opportunities will be updated and launched soon:

Partnership Grants – Stage 2 (Please note that the deadline has moved up to October 29, 2018)

Insight Grants

Partnership Development Grants (Please note that the deadline has moved up two weeks to November 15, 2018).

Partnership Grants – Stage 1

Connection Grants

The Sports Participation Research Initiative (Sport Canada is allocating an additional $75,000 in annual funding to the SPRI for the purposes of applied research on Indigenous children and youth sport programming by and with Indigenous peoples and researchers in this area).